viernes, 19 de junio de 2026

Extraterrestres

 

    from

A Bibliography of Literary Theory, Criticism and Philology

http://bit.ly/abibliog

by José Ángel García Landa

(University of Zaragoza, Spain)

 

 

Extraterrestrial Beings /

extraterrestrial intelligence

 

 

Aldiss, Brian. This World and Nearer Ones. Essay on SF. 1979.

Barthes, Roland. "Martiens." In Barthes, Mythologies. Paris: Seuil, 1957. (Rpt. Points).  42-4.*

Benford, Gregory.  "Aliens and Knowability: A Scientist's Perspective." In Bridges to Science Fiction. Ed. George E. Slussser et al.  Carbondale: Southern Illinois UP, 1980.  53-63.

_____.  "Effing the Ineffable." In Aliens: The Anthropology of Science Fiction. Ed. George E. Slusser and Eric S. Rabkin.  Carbondale: Southern Illinois UP, 1987.  13-25.

Domínguez, Nuño. "Una misión para buscar extraterrestres en la estrella más cercana a la Tierra." El País 1 Oct. 2016.*

         http://elpais.com/elpais/2016/09/29/ciencia/1475176650_120772.html

         2016

Feijoo, Benito Jerónimo (Fray). "¿Hay otros mundos?" From Cartas eruditas y curiosas. In Feijoo, Antología popular. Ed. Eduardo Blanco-Amor. Buenos Aires: Ediciones Galicia, 1966. 231.* (Extraterrestrial beings)

Feinberg, G., and R. Shapiro. Life beyond Earth. New York: Morrow, 1980.

Flammarion, Camille. La pluralidad de mundos habitados. Madrid: Gapar y Roigl, 1873.

Fontenelle, Bernard le Bouvier de. Entretiens sur la pluralité des mondes. 1686. 4th ed. Paris, 1866. (Conversations on the Plurality of Worlds).

_____. The Theory or System of Several New Inhabited Worlds Trans. Aphra Behn. 1700.

_____. (Bernard le Bovier de Fontenelle). Conversations on the Plurality of Worlds. Trans. H. A. Hargreaves. Ed. Nina Rattner Gelbart. Berkeley: U of California P, 1990.

_____. Conversaciones sobre la pluralidad de los mundos. Trans. A. Beltrán. Madrid: Editora Nacional, 1982.

García Landa, José Angel. "Addison on Aliens." In García Landa, Vanity Fea 13 Dec. 2014.*

         http://vanityfea.blogspot.com.es/2014/12/addison-on-aliens.html

         2014

_____. "Addison on Aliens: On the Origins of the Evolutionary Epic." Ibercampus (Vanity Fea) 15 Dec. 2014.*

         http://www.ibercampus.eu/addison-on-aliens-2605.htm

         2015

_____. "Addison on Aliens." Social Science Research Network 8 Jan. 2015.*

         http://ssrn.com/abstract=2543435

         2015

_____. "Addison on Aliens." Academia 30 May 2015.*

         https://www.academia.edu/12682907

         2015

_____. "Addison on Aliens: On the Origins of the Evolutionary Epic." ResearchGate 23 March 2016.*

         https://www.researchgate.net/publication/299385986

         2016

_____. "Addison y los extraterrestres." In García Landa, Vanity Fea 30 May 2015.*

         http://vanityfea.blogspot.com.es/2015/05/addison-y-los-extraterrestres.html

         2015

_____. "Baja probabilidad de vida inteligente." In García Landa, Vanity Fea 7 June 2020.*

         https://vanityfea.blogspot.com/2020/06/baja-probabilidad-de-vida-inteligente.html

         2020

Gould, Stephen Jay. "SETI and the Wisdom of Casey Stengel." In Gould, The Flamingo's smile. 1985. Harmondsworth: Penguin, 1991. 403-13.*

_____. "SETI y la sabiduría de Casey Stengel." In Gould, La sonrisa del flamenco. Barcelona: RBA, 1995. 342-52.*

_____. The Flamingo's Smile: Reflections in Natural History. 1985.

_____. La sonrisa del flamenco. Trans. Antonio Resines. Barcelona: Grijalbo Mondadori-Crítica, 1995.

_____. La sonrisa del flamenco. Trans. Antonio Resines. Barcelona: RBA, 1995.*

Guerrero, Teresa. "'Curiosity' encuentra indicios de vida en Marte." El Mundo (Papel) 8 June 2018.*

         http://prensa.unizar.es/noticias/1806/180608_z0_pale.pdf

         2018

Heidmann, J. "Dix années de recherches futures de signaux extraterrestres." Annales de Physique 14.133 (French Physics Society, 1989).

Heidmann, J., and J.-C. Ribes. A la recherche des extraterrestres. Paris: Nathan, 1985.

Lasswitz, Kurd. "Unser Recht auf Bewohner anderer Welten." Essay on SF. 1910.

"Life on Mars? So What?" New York Times 11 Aug. 1996.

Livio, Mario. "Winston Churchill’s Essay on Alien Life Found." Nature 15 Feb. 2017.*

         http://www.nature.com/news/winston-churchill-s-essay-on-alien-life-found-1.21467

         2017

Loeb, Avi. Extraterrestrial: The First Sign of Intelligent Life Beyond Earth.

_____. "Proyecto Lyra: La misión para interceptar una posible nave alienígena en su paso por el sistema solar." El Confidencial (Novaceno) 1 May 2023. (Oumuamua).

         https://www.elconfidencial.com/tecnologia/novaceno/2023-05-11/espacial-interceptar-nave-alienigena-sistema-solar_3626720/

         2023

_____. Interstellar. 2023.

Longrich, Nicholas. "La evolución nos dice que es probable que seamos la única vida inteligente del universo." The Conversation 24 Oct. 2019.*

         https://theconversation.com/la-evolucion-nos-dice-que-es-probable-que-seamos-la-unica-vida-inteligente-del-universo-125643

         2023

Loosley, William. An Account of a Meeting with Denizens of Another World. 1871. Ed. David Langford. David & Charles, 1979.

Marx, G., ed. Bioastronomy: The Next Steps. Dordrecht: Kluwer, 1987.

Menor-Salván, César. "Vida en Marte: Una realidad incómoda." The Conversation 11 Dec. 2022.*

         https://theconversation.com/vida-en-marte-una-realidad-incomoda-195771

         2022

NeoFronteras. "¿Estamos solos?" Neofronteras 1 June 2020.*

         http://neofronteras.com/?p=7124

         2020

Rees, Martin. "Why Aliens May Be Weirder Than We Think." The Guardian (Future) 26 Oct. 2023.*

         https://www.bbc.com/future/article/20231025-if-alien-life-is-artificially-intelligent-it-may-be-stranger-than-we-can-imagine

         2023

Raulin, F., J. Heidmann, C. Vincent and S. Brunier. "Dossier bioastronomique." In Ciel et espace. French Astronomical Society, 1990.

Slusser, George E., and Eric S. Rabkin. Aliens: The Anthropology of Science Fiction.  Carbondale: Southern Illinois UP, 1987.

Tarter, J., ed. SETI: Search for Extraterrestrial Life. (NP 114). Washington: NASA Headquarters, 1989.

Tipler, F. J. "Extraterrestrial Intelligent Beings Do Not Exist." Physics Today (April 1981): 9, 70-71.

_____. "We Are Alone in Our Galaxy." New Scientist 96 (7 October 1982): 33-35.

Vakoch, Douglas A., and Jeffrey Punske, eds. Xenolinguistics: Towards a Science of Extraterrestrial Language. London: Routledge, 2023.

DOI: https://doi.org/10.4324/9781003352174

Wallace, A. R. Man's Place in the Universe: A Study of the Results of Scientific Research in Relation to the Unity or Plurality of Worlds. New York: McClure Phillips, 1903.

Washington Post. "19th-c. Spaceman Tale Stirs Interest in Texas 'Blob'." Washington Post 26 May 1973.* Online at YouTube (Espace des Sciences).*

         https://youtu.be/wjzEMIox_a8?t=775

         2020

Wilkins, John. Discovery of a New World, or a Discourse to Prove that it is problable there may be another habitable world in the moon; with a Discourse concerning the possibility of a passage thither. 1638.

Wilson, E. O. "10. A Portrait of E. T." In Wilson, The Meaning of Human Existence. New York and London: Norton-Liveright, 2014. 110-22.*

 

 

 

 

 

Audio

 

"Giordano Bruno: L'Infini, l'Univers et les Mondes." Audio (French radio). YouTube (Deus sive natura) 3 Aug. 2019.*

         https://youtu.be/a6b4UTjhF50

         2019

 

Schatzman, Evry. "La Vie dans l'Univers." Audio. YouTube (La Lucarne et la Nuit) 12 Aug. 2017.*

         https://youtu.be/MFzRKGGSuek

         2017

Walker, Sara Imari. "What Is Life, Episode 2. Sara Walker: If We Find Alien Life, Will We Even Know It?" Interview by Carl Zimmer. In What Is Life?

         http://whatislife.libsyn.com/-episode-2-sara-walker-if-we-find-alien-life-will-we-even-know-it

         2019

 

 

 

 

 

 

Literature

 

Asimov, Isaac. "The Martian Way." SF story. Galaxy (1952?).

_____. The Gods Themselves. SF novel. 1971.

_____. Los propios dioses. DeBols!llo.

Bradbury, Ray. Martian Chronicles (=The Silver Locusts). Novel. 1951.

Campbell, John W. Invaders from the Infinite.   Novel.

Cavendish, Margaret, Duchess of Newcastle. Observations upon Experimental Philosophy. With The Description of a New World, called The Blazing World. Fantasy. 1666.

_____. The Blazing World and Other Writings.  Ed. Kate Lilley. Harmondsworth: Penguin, 1994.

_____. From The Description of a New World, Called the Blazing World. 1666, 1668. In The Norton Anthology of English Literature. Ed. M. H. Abrams, Stephen Greenblatt, et al. New York: Norton, 1999. 1765-71.*

Clarke, Arthur C.  "The Sentinel." Story. New Worlds 22 (1953).

_____.  2001: A Space Odyssey. Novel.

_____.  Rendezvous with Rama. Novel. 1973. Hugo Award, Nebula Award.

Cyrano de Bergerac.L'Autre Monde:

_____. Voyage dans la Lune. 1657.

_____. L'histoire des états et empires du soleil.

Defoe, Daniel. The Consolidator: or, Memoirs of Sundry Transactions from the World in the Moon. 1705.

Dick, Philip K.  All We Marsmen. Novella. Worlds of Tomorrow (August 1963).

_____. Clans of the Alphane Moon. Novel. 1964.

Finney, Jack. The Body Snatchers. SF novel. 1955. Film: Invasion of the Body Snatchers, dir. Don Siegel.

Foster, Alan Dean. Alien. Film novelization.  1979.

Hubbard, L. Ron.  Battlefield Earth. Novel. 1982.

_____.  The Invaders' Plan.  Novel. 1986. Vol. 1 of the novel decalogy Mission: Earth.

Lasswitz, Kurd. Auf Zwei Planeten. Novel. 1897.

_____.  On Two Planets.  Trans. 1971.

Le Guin, Ursula K.  Planet of Exile. Novel.  Written 1963-64. 1966.

_____.  The Left Hand of Darkness. 1969. Hugo and Nebula Awards.

Lem, Stanislaw. Solaris. Novel.1961.

_____. Solaris. Novel. 1961. Trans. from the French by Joanna Kilmartin and Steve Cox. Afterword by Darko Suvin. New York: Berkley, 1970.

_____. Solaris. Barcelona: Minotauro.

Lessing, Doris. Re: Colonised Planet 5 Shikasta: Personal, Psychological, Historical Documents Relating to Visit by Johor (George Sherban): Emissary (Grade 9) 87th of the Period of the Last Days. Novel. 1979.

_____.  The Marriages Between Zones Three, Four, and Five (As narrated by the Chronicles of Zone Three).  1980.

_____.  The Sirian Experiment: The Report by Ambien II, of the Five.  Novel. 1981.

_____. The Making of the Representative for Planet 8. Novel. 1982.

_____. Documents Relating to the Sentimental Agents of the Volyen Empire.  Novel. 1983.

Lewis, C. S. Out of the Silent Planet. Novel. 1938.

_____. Perelandra. Novel. 1943.

_____.  That Hideous Strength. Novel. 1945.

Sagan, Carl. Contact.  Novel. 1985.

_____. Contact. 1985. Trans. Raquel Albornoz. Barcelona: Plaza y Janés, 1989.

_____. Contact. Trans. Raquel Albornoz. (Obras maestras de la Ciencia Ficción). Barcelona: Planeta DeAgostini, 2001.

Stapledon, Olaf. Star Maker. Novel. 1937.

Strugatsky, Arkady, and Boris Strugatsky. Roadside Picnic. Novel. 1972. Trans. 1977.

Vonnegut, Kurt. Slaughterhouse-Five: or The Children's Crusade: A Duty-Dance with Death. Kurt Vonnegut: A Fourth-Generation German-American now living in easy circumstances on Cape Cod [and smoking too much], who, as an American infantry scout hors de combat, as a prisoner of war, witnessed the fire-bombing of Dresden, Germany, 'The Florence of the Elbe', a long time ago, and survived to tell the tale. This is a novel somewhat in the telegraphic schizophrenic manner of tales of the planet Tralfamadore, where the flying saucers come from. Peace.  Novel. New York: Delacorte, 1969. 

Watson, Ian.   Alien Embassy. Novel. 1977. 

_____.  Miracle Visitors.  Novel. 1978.

Wells, H. G. The War of the Worlds. Novel. Serialized 1897, book 1898.

_____. The War of the Worlds. Harmondsworth: Penguin, 1946.

_____. The War of the Worlds.  In Seven Science Fiction Novels of H. G. Wells. New York: Dover, n. d. 207-453.*

_____. A Critical Edition of The War of the Worlds: H. G. Wells's Scientific Romance. Ed. David Y. Hughes and Gary M. Geduld. Bloomington: Indiana UP, 1993.

_____. La Guerra de los Mundos. Trans. Ramiro de Maeztu (1902). Appendix by Constantino Bértolo Cadenas. Illust. Mario Lacoma. (Tus Libros, 44). Madrid: Anaya, 1984. 2nd ed. 1986. 3rd ed. 1987.*

Wilson, Colin. The Space Vampires. Novel. Filmed as Lifeforce.

 

 

 

 

Video

 

Balbín, José Luis, et al. "LA CLAVE - OTROS MUNDOS, OTRAS VIDAS." Video. (Antena 3, La Clave, 1992). YouTube (pep ito) 20 Feb. 2013.*

https://youtu.be/zRpu51vlFXE

2021

 

Davies, Paul. "The Eerie Silence: Are We Alone in the Universe?" YouTube (ANUchannel) 31 May 2012.*

         http://youtu.be/fUsXKOo-9mo

         2013

 

Fernández, Rafa. "Razas extraterrestres." Video. YouTube (En Busca de la Verdad) 4 June 2020.* (Crank ufologist).

         https://youtu.be/QzDLt-vv8LI

         2020

 

Fridman, Lex. "Clara Sousa-Silva: Searching for Signs of Life on Venus and Other Planets – Lex Fridman Podcast #195." Video interview. YouTube (Lex Fridman) 28 June 2021.*

https://youtu.be/CGAvsmokB4c

         2021

_____. "Brian Greene: Quantum Gravity, the Big Bang, Aliens, Death, and Meaning - Lex Fridman Podcast #232." Video. YouTube (Lex Fridman) 20 Oct. 2021.* (Consciousness, future of humankind, space exploration, cosmology).

         https://youtu.be/98HZanvAJ8Y

         2022

_____. "Lee Cronin: Origin of Life, Aliens, Complexity, and Consciousness | Lex Fridman Podcast." Video interview. YouTube (Lex Fridman) 11 March 2022.*

https://youtu.be/ZecQ64l-gKM

2022

_____. "Martin Rees: Black Holes, Alien Life, Dark Matter, and the Big Bang | Lex Fridman Podcast #305." Video, interview. YouTube (Lex Fridman) 23 July 2022.*

https://youtu.be/50r-5ULcWgY

2025

 

Santaolalla, Javier. "Nunca encontraremos vida inteligente con el Dr. Javier Santaolalla." Video. YouTube (Canal Voces de la Ciencia) 23 Dec. 2025.*

https://youtu.be/YX3HyrlP2A8

         2025

 

 

 

See also Aliens; UFOs; Science Fiction; Space exploration.

 

 

jueves, 18 de junio de 2026

Extinción

 

    from

A Bibliography of Literary Theory, Criticism and Philology

http://bit.ly/abibliog

by José Ángel García Landa

(University of Zaragoza, Spain)

 

 

Extinction

 

 

Alvarez, L. W. "Experimental Evidence that an Asteroid Impact Led to the Extinction of Many Species 65 million Years Ago." Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences 80 (1982): 627-42.

Alvarez, L. W., W. Alvarez, F. Asaro and H. V. Michel. "Extraterrestrial Cause for the Cretaceous-Tertiary Extinction." Science 208 (1980): 1095-1108.

Alvarez, Walter, T. rex and the Crater of Doom. Rpt. Introd. Carl Zimmer. 2008.

Ashworth, James. "Neanderthal Extinction May Have Been Caused by Sex, Not Fighting." Natural History Museum 31 Oct. 2022.*

         https://www.nhm.ac.uk/discover/news/2022/october/neanderthal-extinction-maybe-caused-sex-not-fighting.html

         2022

Asimov, Isaac. Los lagartos terribles. (Alianza cien). Madrid: Alianza, 1993.

Ayuso, Silvia. "Un millón de especies, amenazadas de extinción a un ritmo sin precedentes." El País 6 May 2019.*

         https://elpais.com/sociedad/2019/05/06/actualidad/1557132880_458286.html

         2019

Bakker, Robert T. The Dinosaur Heresies: New Theories Unlocking the Mystery of the Dinosaurs and their Extinction. New York: Morrow, 1986.

Balouet, J.-C., and A. Alibert. Extinct Species of the World. Trans. J. Hollyman. New York: Barron's, 1990.

BBC News. "What Is Extinction Rebellion and What Does It Want?" BBC News 23 Aug. 2021.*

         https://www.bbc.com/news/uk-48607989

         2021

Benatar, David. Better Never to Have Been: The Harm of Coming into Existence. 2006.

_____. The Human Predicament: A Candid Guide to Life's Biggest Questions. Oxford: Oxford UP, 2017.*

_____. El dilema humano: Una guía sin adornos sobre los grandes interrogantes de la vida. Madrid: Alianza, 2022.

Bermúdez de Castro, José María. "La paleo-genética arroja luz sobre la extinción de los neandertales." Reflexiones de un primate 17 Oct. 2017.*

         http://reflexiones-de-un-primate.blogs.quo.es/2017/10/17/la-paleo-genetica-arroja-luz-sobre-la-extincion-de-los-neandertales/#comment-696

         2017

_____. "Extinción de los neandertales." Reflexiones de un primate 19 Feb. 2019.*

         http://reflexiones-de-un-primate.blogs.quo.es/2019/02/19/extincion-de-los-neandertales/

         2019

_____. "Hemos reducido la diversidad a una sola especie: nosotros. Eso es estar en peligro de extinción." Interview by J. I. Foces. Burgos Conecta 26 Jan. 2019.*

         https://www.burgosconecta.es/provincia/reducido-diversidad-especie-20190126204852-nt.html

         2019

"Big Bang in Antarctica: Killer Crater Found Under Ice." ScienceDaily 1 June 2006. (Permian-Triassic Extinction).

         http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2006/06/060601174729.htm

         2006-11-12

Bostrom, Nick. "Existential Risks: Analyzing Human Extinction Scenarios and Related Hazards." Journal of Evolution and Technology 9 (2002).

Bruner, E. "Extinctions." Paleoneurology 6 March 2021.*

         https://paleoneurology.wordpress.com/2021/03/06/extinctions/

         2021

Carson, Rachel. Silent Spring. New York: Houghton Mifflin, 1962.

Clarke, B., J. Murray and M. Johnson. "The Extinction of Endemic Species by a Program of Biological Control." Pacific Science 38 (1984): 97-104.

_____. "The Extinction of Partula in Moorea." Pacific Science 42 (1988): 150-53.*

Criado, Miguel Ángel. "La sexta gran extinción está en marcha." El País 19 June 2015.*

         http://elpais.com/elpais/2015/06/19/ciencia/1434727661_836295.html

         2015

_____. "La lucha por sobrevivir al hombre." El País 2 Nov. 2017.*

         http://prensa.unizar.es/noticias/1711/171102_z0_elp32.pdf

         2017

Darwin, Charles. The Descent of Man, and Selection in Relation to Sex. London: John Murray. 1st edition. 1871. Online ed. in The Complete Work of Charles Darwin Online

         http://darwin-online.org.uk/content/frameset?itemID=F937.1&viewtype=side&pageseq=1

         2007-06-05

_____. The Descent of Man. 1871.

         http://www.infidels.org/library/historical/charles_darwin/descent_of_man/

         2009

_____. From The Descent of Man. 2nd ed., 1874. In Darwin: Texts. Commentary. Ed. Philip Appleman. 3rd ed. New York: Norton,  2001. 175-254.* (Introd., I, III, VIII, XIX, XX, XXI).

_____. The Descent of Man, and Selection in Relation to Sex. 2nd ed. London, 1889.

_____. The Descent of Man, and Selection in Relation to Sex. 1871. 2 vols. in 1. Princeton: Princeton UP, 1981.

_____. The Descent of Man, and Selection in Relation to Sex (2nd ed., 1879). Introd. James Moore and Adrian Desmond. London: Penguin, 2004.

_____. The Descent of Man: The Concise Edition. Ed. Carl Zimmer. Foreword by Frans de Waal. 2007.

_____. From The Descent of Man. [Natural Selection and Sexual Selection]. 1871. In The Norton Anthology of English Literature. 7th ed. Ed. M. H. Abrams, with Stephen Greenblatt et al. New York: Norton, 1999. 2.1686-90.*

_____. El origen del hombre y la selección en relación al sexo. Madrid: Edaf, 1972.

_____. El origen del hombre. México: Editores Mexicanos Unidos, 1978.

_____. El origen del hombre y la selección en relación al sexo. Barcelona: Brugera, 1980.

_____. El origen del hombre. Ed. and trans. Joandomènec Ros. Afterword by Carles Lalueza-Fox. Barcelona: Crítica, 2009. Rpt. (Austral, Ciencias, 754). Madrid: Espasa-Calpe, 2012.*

Davis, M., P. Hut and R. A. Muller. "Extinction of Species by Periodic Comet Showers." Nature 308 (1984): 715-17.

Davis, Nicola. "End of Neanderthals Linked to Flip of Earth's Magnetic Pole, Study Suggests." Science 18 Feb. 2021.

Degioanni, A., C. Bonenfant, S. Cabut and S. Condemi. "Living on the Edge: Was Demographic Weakness the Cause of Neanderthal Demise?"  PLoS ONE 14.5 (2019): e0216742.*

https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0216742

2019

Feijoo, Benito Jerónimo (Fray). "Hallazgo de especies perdidas." From Teatro Crítico Universal, vol. 6. In Feijoo, Antología popular. Ed. Eduardo Blanco-Amor. Buenos Aires: Ediciones Galicia, 1966. 123-24.*

Flamarique, Leyre. "El Homo antecessor de Atapuerca se extinguió sin descendencia: Este homínido no fue ancestro de los neandertales ni de Homo sapiens." La Vanguardia 2 April 2020: 31.*

         http://prensa.unizar.es/noticias/2004/200402_z0_LAVAN_200402_PAtap.pdf

         2020

Flannery, Timothy, and Peter Schouten. A Gap in Nature: Discovering the World's Extinct Animals. London: Heinemann, 2001.

García Fajardo, José-Carlos. "¿Es posible el fin de la especie humana?" Ibercampus (El Envés) 8 Oct. 2020.*

         https://www.ibercampus.es/es-posible-el-fin-de-la-especie-humana-40196_18.htm

         2020

García Landa, José Ángel. "El fin de la vida, el fin de la vida y el fin de la vida." In García Landa, Vanity Fea 4 July 2006.

         http://garciala.blogia.com/2006/070401-el-fin-de-la-vida-el-fin-de-la-vida-y-el-fin-de-la-vida.php

         2006-07-28

_____. "Doce últimos hombres." In García Landa, Vanity Fea 1 April 2009.*

         http://vanityfea.blogspot.com/2009/04/doce-ultimos-hombres.html

         2009

_____. "Cuellos de botella pasados, futuros e imaginarios." In García Landa, Vanity Fea 17 Jan. 2012.*

         http://vanityfea.blogspot.com/2012/01/cuellos-de-botella-pasados-futuros-e.html

         2012

_____. "Ligando con neandertales." In García Landa, Vanity Fea 8 Sept. 2012.*

         http://vanityfea.blogspot.com.es/2012/09/ligando-con-neandertales.html

         2012

_____. "Extintos con descendencia." In García Landa, Vanity Fea 13 May 2014.*

         http://vanityfea.blogspot.com.es/2014/05/extintos-con-descendencia.html

         2014

_____. "Ligando con neandertales: Extintos con descendencia." Net Sight de José Angel García Landa 25 Oct. 2022, 20 Jan. 2025.*

http://personal.unizar.es/garciala/publicaciones/ligandoconneandertales.html

         2022

https://personal.unizar.es/garciala/publicaciones/ligandoconneandertales.pdf

         2025

_____. "Aquí los extincionistas." In García Landa, Vanity Fea 10 Feb. 2020.*

         https://vanityfea.blogspot.com/2020/02/aqui-los-extincionistas.html

         2020

Gill, Victoria. "'The Sixth Great Extinction Is Happening', Conservation Expert Warns." BBC 16 Nov. 2024.* (Jane Goodall).

         https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/c93qvqx5y01o

         2024

Glen, Wiliam. The Road to Jaramillo. Stanford (CA): Stanford UP, 1982.

_____. The Mass Extinction Debates: How Science Works in a Crisis. Stanford (CA): Stanford UP, 1994.

Guerrero, Teresa. "El sexo entre familiares propició la extinción neandertal." El Mundo (Papel) 9 Feb. 2019: 27.*

         http://prensa.unizar.es/noticias/1902/190211_z0_by.pdf

         2019

Gribbin, John, and Mary Gribbin. Fire on Earth: Doomsday, Dinosaurs and Humankind. New York: St. Martin's Press, 1996.

Gould, Stephen J. "The Belt of an Asteroid." (Mass extinction). In Gould, In Gould, Hen's Teeth and Horse's Toes. Harmondsworth: Penguin, 1990. 320-31.*

_____. "O Grave, Where Is Thy Victory?" (Extinction). In Gould, In Gould, Hen's Teeth and Horse's Toes. Harmondsworth: Penguin, 1990. 343-52.*

_____. "La danza cósmica de Siva." (Cosmological cycles). In Gould, La sonrisa del flamenco. Barcelona: RBA, 1995. 371-81.*

_____. "Death and Transfiguration." In Gould, The Flamingo's smile. 1985. Harmondsworth: Penguin, 1991. 230-44.* (Ediacara fossils, mass extiction).

_____. "Muerte y transfiguración."  In Gould, La sonrisa del flamenco. Barcelona: RBA, 1995. 196-208.*

_____. The Flamingo's Smile: Reflections in Natural History. 1985.

_____. La sonrisa del flamenco.  Trans. Antonio Resines. Barcelona: Grijalbo Mondadori-Crítica, 1995.

_____. La sonrisa del flamenco. Trans. Antonio Resines.  Barcelona: RBA, 1995.*

_____.  Wonderful Life.  London: Hutchinson, 1990.

_____. Wonderful Life. New York: Norton, 1991.

_____. La vida maravillosa. Barcelona: RBA.

_____. La vida maravillosa: Burgess Shale y la naturaleza de la historia.  Barcelona: Crítica, 1991.

_____. La vida maravillosa. Trans. Joandoménec Ros. Introd. Pere Alberch. Barcelona: Círculo de Lectores, 1996.*

_____. "Unenchanted Evening." (Extinction, Crampton). In Gould, Adam's Navel and Other Essays. Harmondsworth: Penguin, 1995. 22-40.*

_____. "Unenchanted Evening." In Gould, Eight Little Piggies: Reflections in Natural History. 1993. Harmondsworth: Penguin, 1994. 23-40.*  (Extinction).

_____. "Atardecer desencantado." In Gould, Ocho cerditos: Reflexiones sobre historia natural. Barcelona: Grijalbo Mondadori-Crítica, 1994. 21-37.*

_____. "The Golden Rule: A Proper Scale for Our Environmental Crisis." In Gould, Eight Little Piggies: Reflections in Natural History. 1993. Harmondsworth: Penguin, 1994. 41-51.* (Extinction).

_____. "La regla aúrea: una escala apropiada para nuestra crisis ambiental." In Gould, Ocho cerditos: Reflexiones sobre historia natural. Barcelona: Grijalbo Mondadori-Crítica, 1994. 38-47.*

_____. "Losing a Limpet." In Gould, Eight Little Piggies: Reflections in Natural History. 1993. Harmondsworth: Penguin, 1994. 52-60.*  (Extinction).

_____. "La pérdida de una lapa." (Extinction). In Gould, Ocho cerditos: Reflexiones sobre historia natural. Barcelona: Grijalbo Mondadori-Crítica, 1994. 48-56.*

_____. "The Wheel of Fortune and the Wedge of Progress." In Gould, Eight Little Piggies: Reflections in Natural History. 1993. Harmondsworth: Penguin, 1994. 300-312.* (Complexity, extinction, catastrophes).

_____. "La rueda de la fortuna y la cuña del progreso."  In Gould, Ocho cerditos: Reflexiones sobre historia natural. Barcelona: Grijalbo Mondadori-Crítica, 1994. 285-96.*

_____. "Dinosaur in a Haystack." In Gould, Dinosaur in a Haystack: Reflections in Natural History. 1996. Harmondsworth: Penguin, 1997. 147-58.*  (Theories, extinction).

_____. "Un dinosaurio en un pajar." In Gould, Un dinosaurio en un pajar. Barcelona: Crítica, 1997. 159-70.*

Hawks, John. "Did Humans Face Extinction 70,000 Years Ago?" In Hawks, John Hawks Weblog 2 May 2008.

         http://johnhawks.net/weblog/reviews/genetics/mtdna_migrations/sub-saharan-africa-population-size-behar-2008.html

         2008

Handley, Lucas. "Estudios sugieren que los neandertales todavía existen: Una investigación cambia la historia de su extinción." Gizmodo 2 Nov. 2024.*

         https://es.gizmodo.com/estudios-sugieren-que-neandertales-todavia-existen-una-investigacion-cambia-la-historia-de-su-extincion-2000132844

         2024

Hernández Velasco, Irene. "Antinatalistas: el movimiento que busca acabar con la especie humana." El Mundo (Papel) 17 Jan. 2018.*

         http://www.elmundo.es/papel/futuro/2018/01/17/5a5e05c946163fa8248b459e.html

         2018

Herrero, Amado. "El Homo sapiens no causó la extinción de los neandertales." El Mundo 27 Nov. 2019.*

         https://www.elmundo.es/ciencia-y-salud/ciencia/2019/11/27/5dde9aa221efa007488b4658.html

         2019

Howell, F. Clark. "Paleo-Demes, Species Clades, and Extinctions in the Pleistocene Hominin Record." Journal of Anthropological Research 55.2 (Summer 1999).*

         https://doi.org/10.1086/jar.55.2.3631209

         https://www.journals.uchicago.edu/doi/abs/10.1086/jar.55.2.3631209

         2021

Hull, Pincelli M., et al. "On Impact and Volcanism across the Paleogene-Cretaceous Boundary." Science 367.6575 (17 Jan. 2020): 266-72.* (Laia Alegret et al.).

         https://science.sciencemag.org/content/367/6475/266

         2020

Jenkins, David Graham. "Predicting Extinctions." In Extinción y registro fósil / Extinction and the Fossil Record. Ed. Eustoquio Molina. Zaragoza: Seminario Interdisciplinar de la Universidad de Zaragoza, 1994. 219-27.*

Jorion, Paul. "1. Avons-nous les moyens d'empêcher l'extinction?" In Jorion, Défense et illustration du genre humain. Paris: Fayard, 2018. 9-26.*

Keller, Gerta. "Mass Extinction and Evolution Patterns across the Cretaceous-Tertiary Boundary." In Extinción y registro fósil / Extinction and the Fossil Record. Ed. Eustoquio Molina. Zaragoza: Seminario Interdisciplinar de la Universidad de Zaragoza, 1994. 165-200.*

Kichell, J. A., D. L. Clark, and A. M. Gombos, Jr. "Biological Selectivity of Extinction: A Link between Background and Mass Extinction." Palaios 1 (1986): 504-11.

Kolbert, Elizabeth. The Sixth Extinction: An Unnatural History. New York: Henry Holt, 2014.*

Laurence, Bill, and Paul Ehrlich. "Hacen falta medidas radicales para evitar la sexta gran extinción en la Tierra." El País 18 May 2017.*

         http://elpais.com/elpais/2017/05/18/ciencia/1495097644_937384.html

         2017

Leakey, Richard E. The Sixth Extinction: Biodiversity and Its Survival. London: Weidenfeld and Nicolson, 1996.

Leakey, Richard, and Roger Lewin. The Sixth Extinction: Patterns of Life and the Future of Humankind. New York, 1995.

Leslie, J. The End of the World: The Science and Ethics of Human Extinction. London: Routledge, 1996.

MacCormack, Patricia. The Ahuman Manifesto. Cambridge, 2020.

McGhee, George R., Jr. The Late Devonian Mass Extinction: The Frasnian/Famennian Crisis. New York: Columbia UP, 1996.

McGuire, Bill. A Guide to the End of the World: Everything Your Never Wanted to Know. Oxford: Oxford UP, 2002.

Molina, Eustoquio. "Aspectos epistemológicos y causas de la extinción." In Extinción y registro fósil / Extinction and the Fossil Record. Ed. Eustoquio Molina. Zaragoza: Seminario Interdisciplinar de la Universidad de Zaragoza, 1994. 11-30.*

_____. "Aspectos epistemológicos y causas de la extinción." From Extinción y registro fósil. Online at Academia.*

         https://www.academia.edu/9389223/

         2014

_____. "29. Evolución: Modalidades y causas de evolución y extinción con microfósiles." In Micropaleontología. Ed. Eustoquio Molina. 2nd ed. Zaragoza: Prensas Universitarias de Zaragoza, 2004. 623-47.*

_____. "Eventos de extinción desde hace 100 Ma: Patrones, causas y efectos." Lecture at the XXXI Jornadas de Paleontología, 2015. Academia (2015).*

         https://www.academia.edu/16724763/

         2015

_____. "Etapas y causas de la sexta extinción en masa." Actas X Jornadas Aragonesas de Paleontología. Ed. C. Arcega and J. Lahoz. Zaragoza: Institución 'Fernando el Católico', 2008. 187-203. Online at Academia (Eustoquio Molina)

         https://www.academia.edu/9197160/

         2015

_____. Eventos de extinción desde el Cretácico a la actualdiad: Patrones, causas y efectos. Discurso de ingreso leído por el académico electo Ilmo. Sr. D. Eustoquio Molina Martínez en el Acto de su Recepción Solemne celebrado el día 16 de junio del año 2016. Y Discurso de contestación por el Ilmo. Sr. D. Juan Pablo Martínez Rica, Académico Numerario. Zaragoza: Real Academia de Ciencias Exactas, Físcias, Químicas y Naturales de Zaragoza, 2016.*

_____. Eventos de extinción desde el Cretácico a la actualdiad: Patrones, causas y efectos. Academia (June 2016).*

         https://www.academia.edu/26365331/

         2016

_____, ed. Extinción y registro fósil / Extinction and the Fossil Record. (Cuadernos Interdisciplinares, 5). Zaragoza: Seminario Interdisciplinar de la Universidad de Zaragoza, 1994.*

Molina, E., and J. M. Lorente. "Causas e incidencias de la última extinción en masa en Aragón." Naturaleza Aragonesa  6 (2000): 20-25.

"The Mystery of Selective Extinction." Earth (Oct. 1996): 12.

Olivier, Bert. "Human Extinction? It's Not Just Science Fiction." Thought Leader 30 June 2014.*

         http://www.thoughtleader.co.za/bertolivier/2014/06/30/human-extinction-its-not-just-science-fiction/

         2014

"On the Brink: Hawaii's Vanishing Species." National Geographic (Sept. 1995): 2-37.

Ord, Toby. The Precipice. 2020. (Extinction, pandemic, global crisis).

Ortiz, Nieves. "Extinción masiva de los microforaminíferos bentónicos batiales y abisales en el límite Paleoceno/Eoceno." In Extinción y registro fósil / Extinction and the Fossil Record. Ed. Eustoquio Molina. Zaragoza: Seminario Interdisciplinar de la Universidad de Zaragoza, 1994. 201-18.*

"Una paleontóloga halla nuevas causas de la extinción provocada tras el impacto de asteroide hace 65,5 millones de años." (Europa Press). 20 Minutos 27-11-2011.*

         http://www.20minutos.es/noticia/1261186/0/

         2012

Planelles, Manuel. "La sexta gran extinción de especies amenaza también la economía global." El País 8 May 2019.*

         http://prensa.unizar.es/noticias/1905/190508_z0_pais3031.pdf

         2019

Powell, James Lawrence. Night Comes to the Cretaceous: Dinosaur Extinction and the Transformation of Modern Geology. New York: W. H. Freeman, 1998.

Quammen, David. The Song of the Dodo. London: Hutchinson, 1996.

Raup, D. M. "The Size of the Permo-Triassic Bottleneck and Its Evolutionary Implications." Science 206 (1979): 217-18.

Raup, D. M., and J. J. Sepkoski, Jr. "Mass Extinctions in the Marine Fossil Record." Science 215 (1982): 1501-3.

_____.  "Periodicity of Extinctions in the Geologic Past." Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences 81 (1984): 801-5.

"Report Finds Growing Biodiversity Threat." Valley News 27 Nov. 1995.

Ryder, Alistair. "'The Only Solution for Climate Change is Letting the Human Race Become Extinct': Anglia Ruskin Professor Patricia MacCormack Has Written a Controversial Book on How Our Extinction Could Save the Planet." Cambridgeshire Live 5 Feb. 2020.*

         https://www.cambridge-news.co.uk/news/cambridge-news/cambridge-professor-thinks-should-human-17684215

         2020

Sampedro, Javier. "El ser humano desencadena la sexta extinción masiva del planeta." El País 25 July 2014.*

         http://prensa.unizar.es/noticias/1407/140725_z0_pais34.pdf

         2014

Schindewolf, Otto. (1896-1971; defended mass extinctions).

Seilacher, A. "Late Precambrian and Early Cambrian Metazoa: Preservational or Real Extinctions." In Patterns of Change in Earth Evolution. Ed. H. D. Holland and A. R. Trendall. Berlin: Springer, 1984. 159-68.

Sepkoski, David. Catastrophic Thinking: Extinction and the Value of Diversity from Darwin to the Anthropocene. Chicago: U of Chicago P, 2020.*

_____. "Catastrophic Thinking: Extinction and the Value of Diversity from Darwin to the Anthropocene." Interview by Lukas Rieppel. New Books Network 22 Jan. 2021.*

         https://newbooksnetwork.com/catastrophic-thinking

         2022

Sequeiros, Leandro. "Patrones de la extinción de los ammonites." In Extinción y registro fósil / Extinction and the Fossil Record. Ed. Eustoquio Molina. Zaragoza: Seminario Interdisciplinar de la Universidad de Zaragoza, 1994. 97-120.*

Sheehan, Peter M., et al. "Sudden Extinction of the Dinosaurs: Late Cretaceous, Upper Great Plains, USA." Science 254 (1991): 835-39.

Shaw, Andy. "All Hail the New CofE: The Church of Extinction." Spectator (Life) 13 Nov. 2019.*

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         2019

Signor, P. W., and J. H. Lipps. "Sampling Bias, Gradual Extinction Patterns and Catastrophes in the Fossil Record." Geological Society of America Special Paper (Regional Studies) 190 (1982): 291-96.

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Stanley, Steven M. Extinction. New York: Scientific American, 1987.

"Survival of the Luckiest." New York Times Book Review 22 Oct. 1989.

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         DOI: 10.1111/ddi.12369

         http://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/ddi.12369/abstract

         2015

Tattersall, Ian, and Jeffrey Schwartz. Extinct Humans. Boulder (CO): Westview /  Perseus, 2001.

Vermeij, G. J. "The Biology of Human-Caused Extinction." In The Preservation of Species. Ed. B. G. Norton. Princeton: Princeton UP,  1986. 28-49.

"Vive el planeta su sexta gran extinción en masa." (Eustoquio Molina). Boletín Academia Mexicana de Ciencias 245.16 (20 Oct. 2016).*

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         2016

Ward, Peter D. "The Extinction of the Ammonites." Scientific American 249 (1983): 136-47.

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_____. On Methuselah's Trail: Living Fossils and the Great Extinctions. New York: Freeman, 1992.

_____. Under a Green Sky: Global Warming, the Mass Extinctions of the Past, and What They Can Tell Us About Our Future. Collins, 2007.

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         2009

Weisman, Alan. The World Without Us. St. Martin's Press, 2007.

Wells, H. G. "On Extinction." Essay. 1893.

_____. "The Extinction of Man." From Certain Personal Matters. Online at The Literature Network.*

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         2025

_____. L'Extinction de l'espèce humaine. Paris: Payot, 2018.

Whitmire, D. P., and A. A. Jackson IV. "Are Periodic Mass Extinctions Driven by a Distant Solar Companion?" Nature 308 (1984): 713-15.

Wilson, Edward O. "Wildlife: Legions of the Doomed." Time (International) 30 Oct. 1995: 57-9.

_____. The Future of Life. 2002.

Wong, Kate. "Why Is Homo Sapiens the Only Surviving Member of the Human Family?" Scientific American (Sept. 2018).*

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         2018

Zimmer, Carl. "Predicting Oblivion: Are Existing Models Up to the Task?" Science August 17, 2007.

In carlzimmer.com

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         2007

_____. "Almost Two-Thirds of Primates Near Extinction, Scientists Find." New York Times 18 Jan. 2017.*

         https://www.nytimes.com/2017/01/18/science/almost-two-thirds-of-primate-species-near-extinction-scientists-find.html

         2017

Zimmer, Carl, and Peter Ward. "Science Saturday: Mass Extinctions." Video dialogue. Bloggingheads.tv 15 Dec. 2007.

         http://www.bloggingheads.tv/diavlogs/7431

         2007

 

 

 

 

Internet resources

 

 

Voluntary Human Extinction Movement

         http://www.mourningtheancient.com/vhemt.htm

         2007

 

 

 

 

 

Literature

 

 

Byron (Lord). "Darkness." Poem. 1816.

_____. "Darkness." In Byron, Poetical Works. Ed. Robert Page. new ed. rev. John Jump. Oxford: Oxford UP, 1970.

_____. "Darkness." In The Norton Anthology of English Literature. Gen. ed. M. H. Abrams with Stephen Greenblatt. Vol. 2. New York: Norton, 1999. 560.* (Apocalypse).

_____. "Darkness." Online at Poetry Foundation.*

         https://www.poetryfoundation.org/poems/43825/darkness-56d222aeeee1b

         2020

_____. "Darkness." In García Landa, Vanity Fea 12 Sept. 2012.*

         http://vanityfea.blogspot.com.es/2012/09/darkness.html

         2012

_____. "Darkness." In "Two Poems of Darkness." In García Landa, Vanity Fea 13 Dec. 2012.* (Donne, "A Nocturnal"; Byron, "Darkness").

         http://vanityfea.blogspot.com.es/2012/12/two-poems-of-darkness.html

         2012

Shelley, Mary. (Anon.). The Last Man. By the Author of Frankenstein. In Three Volumes. London: Henry Colburn, 1826.

_____. The Last Man. London: Henry Colburn, 1826.

_____. The Last Man. Paris: Galignani, 1826.

_____. The Last Man. Philadelphia: Carey, Lea, and Blanchard, 1833.

_____. The Last Man. Introd. Brian Aldiss. London: Hogarth, 1985.

_____. The Last Man. Introd. Anne K. Mellor. Ed. Hugh M. Luke, Jr. Lincoln: U of Nebraska P, 1993.*

_____. The Last Man. Ed. Morton D. Paley. Oxford: Oxford UP, 1994.*

_____. The Last Man. Ed. Anne McWhir. Ontario: Broadview Press, 1996.

_____. El último hombre. Ed. Antonio Ballesteros. (Clásicos de la Literatura). Madrid: Akal, 2020.

Stapledon, Olaf. Last and First Men: A Story of the Near and Far Future. Novel. London: Methuen, 1930.

 

 

 

 

Video

 

 

 

"Los acantilados de Zumaia." (Extinction and geology). Documentary. Dir. Alberto Gorritiberea and Asier Hilario. La 2 - Los documentales de Cultural.es 8 March 2010.*

         http://www.rtve.es/alacarta/videos/los-documentales-de-culturales/documentales-culturales-acantilados-zumaia/713492/

         2011

 

The Budget Museum. "Extinct Animals of Ancient History." Video. YouTube (The Budget Museum) 30 Oct. 2021.*

         https://youtu.be/L8lkZgWNA-8

         2022

 

Barrau, Aurélien. "Le plus grand défi de l'histoire de l'humanité - conférence d'Aurélien Barrau." Video lecture, Théâtre de la Madeleine, Paris, 22 Oct. 2019. YouTube (Aurélien Barrau) 8 Jan. 2020.*

         https://youtu.be/Chei_TGABEs

         2020

_____. "Discussion avec Aurélien Barrau au "Bain des Pâquis" à Genève." Video interview.  YouTube (aurelien barrau) 25 Aug. 2020.* (Global crisis, extinction, environmentalism, revolution).

https://youtu.be/T-0a0Ch_IjI

2020

 

"The Day the Earth Nearly Died." BBC Horizon. Online at YouTube (Dewi Griffiths) 15 Jan. 2012.* (Permian mass extinction).

         http://youtu.be/wn62AjIpWMw

         2013

 

Homo Erectus: Planet of the Apemen - Battle for Planet Earth. Prod. BBC. Online at YouTube (AtheistsAreSkeptics) 3 Nov. 2011.*

         http://youtu.be/BMUOT3lLs7M

         2012

 

Hublin, Jean-Jacques. "Homo sapiens : l'espèce orpheline (9) - Jean-Jacques Hublin (2016-2017): Le Remplacement." Lecture, 8 Nov. 2016. Video. YouTube (Sciences de la Vie – Collège de France) Sept. 2022.*

https://youtu.be/xm8dprOa-fM

         2022

 

Krauss, Lawrence, et al. "The Great Debate: Extinctions." YouTube (ShirleyFilms) 19 Feb. 2015.*

         https://youtu.be/BFcZG_QVsT8

         2015

 

Molina, Eustoquio. "Las extinciones." Lecture at the Colegio Nacional de México, 18 Oct. 2016. YouTube (elcolegionacionalmx).*

         https://youtu.be/SsmNN0bGR6s

         2016

 

Santaolalla, Javier. "Calculo cuándo se extinguirá la HUMANIDAD. El resultado es sorprendente." YouTube (Date un Vlog) 21 July 2018.*

https://youtu.be/fF_sR3ti4DA

         2019

 

Stringer, Christopher B. "Chris Stringer: What is Homo sapiens?" Video seminar. YouTube (NIMBioS) 23 Feb. 2021.* (Homo species and populations; Fossils; Neanderthal extinction).

https://youtu.be/ipVleL4_AeE

2023

 

Tell Tale Books. "H. G. Wells 11: On Extinction." Video. YouTube (Tell Tale Books) 12 Feb. 2024.*

https://youtu.be/WaLEqkquJjE

2025

 

Weinstein, Eric. "Is This The End of Humanity?" Interview. YouTube (Triggernometry and Eric Weinstein) 11 Feb. 2026.* (Nuclear arms).

         https://youtu.be/g4jnK58co2Q

         2026

 

 

 

 

See also Apocalypse; Last Man; Dinosaurs; Extinct species; Evolution; Fossils.

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